Curatorial collective, live events and talks with Dane Sutherland, Alexander Storey Gordon and Steven Grainger.
CCA Creative Lab, Glasgow, 2013
Echo Chamber was a provisional curatorial collective comprised of Beth Dynowski, Alexander Storey Gordon, Steven Grainger and Dane Sutherland. The Echo Chamber as a concept is based around the effects produced by the amplifying nature of a hollow enclosure, which has often been used in sound and music recording. This phenomenon has been extrapolated to refer to a social situation in which information, ideas or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission inside an ‘enclosed’ system, the effect of which is to manage and disregard conflicting views and political adversaries, particularly in the digital sphere.
Our engagement with this allegorical image was predicated upon the intersections of our distinct understandings of an echo chamber, both in its potential politics and its poetics. With this in mind, the Echo Chamber was at once both a moment in our project; the bringing together of four dissonant voices in chorus and at the same time also a guide, a common thread by which we constituted a collective process directed towards the creation of an exhibition of the same name in 2014.
During the process, we left the idea of working towards an exhibition open to collapse and worked with what we were in, bringing a range of people together and hosted readings, screenings, discussions and performances of texts, sound and music. These took place through two public events - 'Creative Labour' and 'X + Y: Chaos and Noise' .
Participating artists, writers and philosophers: Jen Clarke, Alana Jelinek, Caroline Gaudsen, Craig Bayne, Neil McGuniess, Michelle Hannah, James Stephen Wright, Tom Betteridge.